HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Safe spaces and ‘ze’ badges: My bewildering year at a US university. “As a child in Glasgow, I learned that sticks and stones might break my bones but words didn’t really hurt. I’m now at New York University studying journalism, where a different mantra seems to apply.”

Plus:

The student in front of me, an Australian, found this hilarious: ‘Last time I checked, I was a girl.’ Her joke was met with stony silence. Later I realised why: expressing bewilderment at the obsession with pronouns might count as a ‘micro-aggression’. Next stop, ‘transphobia’.

It was soon obvious to my fellow students that I was not quite with the programme. In a class discussion early in my first semester, I made the mistake of mentioning that I believed in objective standards in art. Some art is great, some isn’t, I said; not all artists are equally talented. This was deemed an undemocratic opinion and I was given a nickname: the cultural fascist. I’ve tried to take it affectionately.

American higher ed is rapidly becoming a worldwide joke. What if the high-dollar foreign students stop coming?

THIS IS NO SURPRISE IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ADDICTS: Most opioid users stay on drugs even after overdosing, Pa. Medicaid study finds.

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Plus, big savings in Jewelry.

YOU SPELLED ‘BROKE THE STORY’ INCORRECTLY: ESPN boss slams reporter for selfishly ‘hijacking’ Robert Lee story.

UPDATE: As Ace writes, “But I thought we were supposed to praise leakers and the brave journalists who print their leaks.”

Not when it comes from the right and damages the reputation of a leftwing institution of course — as evidenced (among loads of other examples) by the DNC-MSM’s meltdown over James O’Keefe’s ACORN videos, using undercover video reporting techniques straight out of the multiple Emmy-winning 60 Minutes series.

WHY GOOGLE COULD LOSE. “If protected concerted activity allows individuals to yell racist slurs on the picket line, then workers can probably send a memo criticizing an employer’s diversity program to other staff members in an effort to improve work conditions.”

THE DANGERS OF TOO MUCH VITAMIN B. Though this is only about smokers.

A TRAILER PARK CALLED CAMELOT: Robert Kennedy’s son and granddaughter arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

Barnstable County police responded to multiple 911 calls early Sunday morning reporting loud music and fireworks at a home near the Kennedy compound. When police arrived they found beer cans littering nearby streets and “loud music and loud voices” heard by officers as they approached the home.

 A “glassy-eyed” 52-year-old Matthew “Max” Kennedy, the ninth child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy responded to the officers when they came to the door and “immediately became angry,” according to the police report.

As officers entered the residence Kennedy reacted by “screaming incoherently and throwing himself at a wall” as well as smashing a wall cabinet full of glass items, the police report said. He continued to resist arrest as party-goers yelled at law enforcement, “you don’t know who you’re messing with,” and, “He was a district attorney.”

Pro tip: Cops love it when you play the “do you know who I am??” card on them.

(Classical reference in headline.)

AND THIS SEXBOT COULD HELP MORE: Depressed but can’t see a therapist? This chatbot could help.

A TALE OF TWO COVERS: Rolling Stone’s 1977 memorial cover featuring a young Elvis Presley and its 2013 memorial cover featuring a young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Islamic Boston bomber, highlight how “in the years between Elvis’s sad end and the post-9/11 era, Rolling Stone had gone horribly wrong.”

The magazine’s editors and publisher had a choice to make between art and radical leftist politics. They chose…poorly.

AGE LIKE A FORMER ATHLETE. I’d rather age like a current one.

But what I’ve learned from TV about the aging process for white males is that they’re hopeless goofballs until they hit around 50 or 55, at which point they start windsurfing, mountain-biking, and consuming vast amounts of Viagra and Cialis.

AS SCHOOL GETS UNDERWAY, a reminder to universities not to engage in sex discrimination.

ANGELO CODEVILLA IS UNDERWHELMED BY TRUMP’S AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY. Me too. Go big or go home.

FASTER, PLEASE: Longevity fund companies target breakthrough antiaging.

FURRY GETS FIRED: Man Gets Suspended From Twitter for Sexually Harassing Tony the Tiger.

The 21st century isn’t working out the way I had hoped, to coin an Instaphrase.

I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC, BUT WE LOVE TO FISK THE NEWS. WaPo Editorial: Satan Is Good; Christians Are Responsible for Charlottesville.

ROGER SIMON: Why Is Anyone Listening to James Clapper Anymore?

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 1568: (Still) Seeking IRS Accountability.